Loic Beauvais, Comte de Sens

Loic Beauvais, Comte de Sens (23 June 1772-19 October 1855) was a French soldier and politician. Beauvais sat in the Chamber of Peers of France as a member of the French Republicans from 1836 to 1845.

Biography
Loic Beauvais was born in Sens, Burgundy on 23 June 1772, the son of a watchmaker. Beauvais enlisted in the French Revolutionary Army in 1792 at the start of the French Revolutionary Wars, and he served in the dragoons in the Army of the Rhine during the war against the Holy Roman Empire. In 1798, he was promoted to Colonel and given command of a regiment of dragoons in the Armee d'Orient under Napoleon Bonaparte, and he commanded the regiment during his Egyptian Campaign, including at the battle of Abukir in 1799. Beauvais garrisoned Alexandria until 1800, and he returned home that year. He served in the cavalry during the Napoleonic Wars, and he fought at the Battle of Friedland in 1807 and at the Battle of Leipzig in 1813. Beauvais was not promoted due to his strong republican views, and he refused to swear an oath of allegiance to the First French Empire. After the second Bourbon Restoration in 1815, he became a politician, serving as Mayor of Sens as a member of the conservative French Republicans from 1818 to 1825 and as a member of the Burgundian provincial council from 1825 to 1836. In 1836, he was elevated to the Chamber of Peers by King Louis Philippe I, and he represented the Republicans in the government. Beauvais was created "Comte de Sens", and he represented the interests of the people in the government. He left politics in 1845 and retired to his estate in the Burgundian countryside, where he died in 1855 at the age of 83.